The deadline to submit applications for the 2026 Lehigh Valley Area Local Scholarship Program has been extended.  We have made some changes to the scholarship program to expand eligibility.  The scholarship is now open to 1st year and currently enrolled college students.  This is a one-time change that will only apply to the 2026 Extended Scholarship Program.  Scholarship rules and applications can be found HERE

The APWU has been receiving many calls regarding the retro-active back pay for the 2024-2027 Contract.  The following information is courtesy of APWU National Director of Industiral Relations Charlie Cash.

Employees will not see the retroactive adjustments on the pay stub that they look at on their mobile phones or the small stub they may receive in the mail. They will need to download the full stub (which could be many pages long, the last stubs from the 2021-2024 retroactive payments were up to 20 pages long). There they will see each pay period adjustment. People also need to remember that the payments will have taxes withheld, TSP withheld, retirement withheld, etc.

Couple things to keep in mind:

• No one person’s retroactive pay will be identical to another. Retroactive pay is only made on paid work hours or paid leave that was used during the retroactive period.
• If an employee was detailed to another pay scale (the most common is they were on a non-bargaining unit detail as a 204-b or such) they are not paid any retroactive payments for that.
• Any employee who received payments from OWCP will not see retroactive payments from the Postal Service. Only hours paid by the postal service on the APWU pay schedule will be due retro active payments.

If people have doubts about their retroactive payments, they need to download and provide the full pay stub to their local union. The local union leaders will invesitgate. If an issue is found, my department will address it.